Feb 25 2010

Advertising Income Not Great

Income Better But Not Great
This seems to be a continuing complaint by me, that the income for Canadian Financial Opinions is really not what I was hoping it might be after 5 years of writing, but I continue to try new ideas to see if that might help push income to a less slave level and [...]

Mar 17 2009

February Income Numbers

An update on  my attempt to carve out a meager income with my blogging so here is an update for December from Canadian Personal Financial Opinions :

Adsense income $66.17 with about 14000 impressions (including RSS)
Kontera income $5.90  on 7843 page impressions
TextLinkAds income $38.85 earn with 6 ads running out of a possible 8 (text link ads)
Performancing Ads $00.00 from 0 [...]

Feb 4 2009

January Income Numbers

An update on  my attempt to carve out a meager income with my blogging so here is an update for December from Canadian Personal Financial Opinions :

Adsense income $77.92 with about 13000 impressions (including RSS)
Kontera income $8.46  on 8735 page impressions
TextLinkAds income $37.06 earn with 5 ads running out of a possible 8 (text link ads)
Performancing Ads $39.00 from 2 [...]

Jan 8 2009

December 2008 Income

An update on  my attempt to carve out a meager income with my blogging so here is an update for December from Canadian Personal Finance Opinions :

Adsense income $51.54 with about 5000 impressions
Kontera income $7.84  on 4400 page impressions
Text Link Ads income $38.09 earn with 5 ads running out of a possible 8 (text link [...]

Nov 17 2008

Book Review: SEO Search Engine Optimization Bible

SEO Bible by Jerri L. Ledford
(ISBN: 978-0-470-17500-2) As usual I have not purchased this book, I have, however, borrowed it from the Ottawa Public Library.
This is an excellent book for those who are beginners in the “Mug’s Game” of Search Engine Optimization.(SEO) It explains what the basic concepts of SEO are, and why they are [...]

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Nov 5 2008

How To: Redirect Blogspot to Point at Wordpress Hosted Blog

I wrote this post to myself on my personal blog in February while I was attempting to transition from my old site on Blogspot to my new site at Dreamhost. At the end of it, I over thought it, and should have simply shut down the Blogspot site after a month and not worried about [...]

Oct 17 2008

Commenting and Relish

Added the Comment Relish plug in from Justin Shattuck to Canadian Personal Finance Opinions to see whether sending e-mail to first time commenters causes more traffic through the web site. Seems to work just fine, we shall see if this actually causes folks to wander through my site or not.
My Alexa inbound link number continues [...]

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Oct 10 2008

Readership Up This Week

The readership at Canadian Personal Finance Opinions is up sharply this past week, which may well be due to the current black economic world we are living in, but if it makes me money, I guess it is ok by me. Lost 1 more advertiser on my Text Link Ads list, which means less income [...]

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Jul 28 2008

Page Rank 2.0 Again

Page Rank Up
Canadian Financial and Consumer Opinions page rank seems to have raised up to a 2/10 in Google’s eyes, which is a start given it was at 0/10 for a very long time (due to unknown reasons). What caused this? I have no idea, I have been cleaning up the mess of cross-links (over [...]

Jul 11 2008

Carnivals

Back to trying to build traffic to both of the sites by submitting articles to Carnivals to see if we can build up readership and pass through rates here and at Canadian Financial Opinions. Mentioned at Business On Line and on Canadian Capitalist’s This and That #100 posts and both of those should help send [...]

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